Let the sawdust out of
使原形毕露, 使出丑
🧩 词语组成解析
let
[lɛt]
允许，任由;让，随;假设;出租;
the
[ðə]
art. 指已提到的人（物）;指说话人与听者已知的人（物）;用于独一无二的事物前;与形容词最高级和序数词连用;
sawdust
[['sɔ:dʌst]]
n. 锯屑\\n[机] 锯屑
out
[aʊt]
adv. 出局;在外，在外部;完全，彻底;出版;
prep. （表示来源）从;（从…里）出来;（表示不在原状态）脱离;离去;
vt. 使熄灭;揭露;驱逐;
adj. 外面的;出局的;下台的;外围的;
n. 不流行;出局;
of
[əv]
prep. 关于;属于…的;由…制成;
aux. 助动词 [非标准用语、方言] =have [主用于虚拟语气];
🗣️ 情景例句
The work is not as difficult as you think.
工作不像你想象的那么难。
At this time of the year farmers plow their fields.
在一年这时候农夫们耕作他们的土地。
There are even stories of half-trained elephant calves who have refused to feed and pined to death when by some unavoidable circumstance they have been deprived of their own trainer.
训练了一半的小象，由于不可避免的情况与他们的主人分离后，竟拒绝吃食，消瘦至死。